Karl du Fresne

Friday, March 29, 2013

RNZ must right its lean to the left

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , March 27.) I have some advice – unsolicited – for whoever takes over from Pe...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

The Pacific's own Papa Doc

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(First published in The Dominion Post , March 22.) APOLOGISTS for the illegitimate Fijian government led by Frank Bainimarama have mel...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Poor John Howard: so disliked that he won four elections

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I read a lot in The Spectator Australia about the supposed pervasive left-wing bias of the Australian media, particularly in the papers p...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

The new pope will inherit two Churches

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , March 13. Note : this appeared before the election of the new pope.) It’s...
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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Sport: one melodrama after another

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(First published in The Dominion Post , March 8.) SPORT has morphed into pure soap opera. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when this hap...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

A fatally flawed model

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , February 27.) Last week’s papers contained further depressing evidence of t...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

The madness gripping the media

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(First published in The Dominion Post , February 22.) IT’S HARD to remember a new television programme that has been more relentlessly s...
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Karl du Fresne
I'm a third-generation New Zealander of Irish, Danish and French descent. I grew up in the farming town of Waipukurau and still consider it my turangawaewae, although I can walk the length of the main street these days and not recognise a single face. I've written books about press freedom ("The Right to Know", 2005), wine ("The New Zealand Wine-Lover's Companion", 2009) and music ("A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis", 2016). In a past life I edited a daily newspaper called The Dominion. I was in journalism for more than 50 years and like many journalists I know a little bit about a lot of things and probably not enough about anything. I didn't go to university and have never won any awards. I don't call New Zealanders Kiwis, I've never sat through a reality TV show, I'm not on X or Instagram, and I haven't written my own Wikipedia entry.The picture accompanying this profile was drawn by my clever grandson Gabriel.
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